3: Article Text.http://www.joomlaexplained.com/chapter3 has some text that you can use for this article. You can copy and paste the text from that site into your new article. Before you do so, I have a note of caution: Copying and pasting text is always somewhat tricky. Some programs such as Microsoft Word are notorious for creating a lot of bad formatting with their articles. My suggestion would always be to type directly into Joomla. However, if you do copy-and-paste, always start by copying from the article and pasting into a text editor like WordPad or Notepad. That clears away the formatting. You can then copy the code out of the editor and paste into Joomla.

Figure 3.14 shows you how your screen looks once these three settings are applied.

When you're happy with the article, click Save & Close in the top-right corner. This saves all the changes you made.

Then in very top-right corner, above the Save & Close button, click on View Site. This sends you to the visitor area of your site. You can see both the Save & Close and the View Site buttons in Figure 3.15.

Great! You now know how to welcome people to your new Joomlaville site. However, the heading across the top of the site still reads "Joomla! Open Source Content Management." Let's go ahead and change that to reflect our new content.

Changing Your First Template

Now let's change the design of the site so that visitors can clearly see the word Joomlaville.

Go back to the administrator area of your site.

In the drop-down menu, click on Extensions and then Template Manager.

Either click on the Beez2-Default name or select the box next to Beez2-Default and click Edit in the top-right corner. You see a screen like Figure 3.17.